Balance means for machinery.



B. BARTLEY.

BALANCE MEANS FOR MACHINERY.

APPLICATION man OCT. 16. 1913.

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BEN BARTLEY, OF NEW HAVEN, KENTUCKY.

BALANCE MEANS FOR MACHINERY.

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Application filed October 16, 1913.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that L'BEN BARTLEY, acitizen of theUnited States, residingat New Haven, in the county of Nelson and State of Kentucky, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Balance Means forMachinery; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact de scription of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to balance means and more particularly to balancemeans for the cylinders of threshing machines.

A fault commonto many types of machines, is the fact that in cases offorced feeding, there is a momentary stop or pause, thus causing shocksand unevenness in run ning, and itis the object of this invention tocorrect these disadvantages and faults, by providing the shafts withheavy balance wheels, so that smooth and even running and freedom fromshocks is assured; This object may be obtained by means" of thecombination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully describedand claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which, likecharacters of reference indicate like parts in the figures, of which,

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of. a threshing machine showingthe invention 1 applied thereto and, Fig. 2 represents a sideelevational view of a portion of the machine showing the inventionapplied thereon.

Referringmore particularly to the drawing, the cylinder 5 of thethreshing machine 6, which illustrates a well known type of threshingmachine, has its shaft 7 extended on both sides of the frame 8, andprovided with a drive pulley 9 and a blower pulley '10, and between thetwo is keyed or otherwise secured on the shaft 7, a heavy balance wheel11, a similar balance wheel 12 being secured on the shaft, on theopposite side of the frame from the wheel 11. The balance wheel 11 maybe secured to the shaft in close Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 18, 1916.

Serial no. 795,544.-

wheels attached to machines of different sizes and capacity, will bevaried in accordance with the proportions of the machine,

combination and arrangement of parts, I

reserve and may exercise the right to make such changes in thecombination and arrangement as do not depart from the spirit of theinvention and the scope of the appended claim.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent is;

A balance means for machinery compris ing a driving shaft for athreshing machine cylinder, a driving pulley carried by the shaft at oneend thereof, a belt driving the pulley, a second pulley spaced from thedriving pulley and at the same end of the shaft, a belt on the secondpulley extending in the direction opposite to that of the first namedbelt, a fly wheel on the shaft between said pulleys, a third pulleymounted on the shaft at the opposite end thereof adapted to receive abelt extending in thesame or a direction opposite to the first namedbelt, and a second fly wheel carried by the driving shaft at the end ofthe shaft occupied by the last named pulley. I

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

hi BEN BARTLEY- mark Witnesses:

W. F. CHRISTIAN, GUY S. BEAM.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each,oby addressingthe "Commissioner of Patents,

Washington D. G.

